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Florence Namasinga Selnes

Florence Namasinga Selnes

Job title
  • Associate Professor
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 48, 0167 Oslo
Phone
  • Mobile: +47 925 58 190
  • Office: +47 672 37 550
E-mail
  • florence.namasinga@oslomet.no
Affiliation

About

Teaching, research, and dissemination within the fields of media and journalism are the pillars of my professional work. My academic focus centers on the intersection of digital platforms and journalistic practice, with specific expertise in: Social media in Journalism; Youth news consumption and social media use; fake news and misinformation; diversity and media; press freedom.

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Research projects

Ongoing research projects

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Publications and research

Scientific publications

Selnes, Florence Namasinga ; Hyde-Clarke, Nathalie (2025). Sharing as ‘participation in the untrue’ on the Internet. Hornmoen, Harald; Hyde-Clarke, Nathalie; Stuedahl, Dagny (Ed.). Media Engagement, Literacy, and Dialogue among European Youth: Participatory Research as a Gateway. Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003527169-8

Selnes, Florence Namasinga ; Hyde-Clarke, Nathalie (2025). Sharing as 'participation in the untrue' on the Internet. Hornmoen, Harald; Hyde-Clarke, Nathalie; Stuedahl, Dagny (Ed.). Media Engagement, Literacy, and Dialogue among European Youth. p. 81-93. Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3243471

Selnes, Florence Namasinga (2024). Adolescents’ experiences and (re)action towards fake news on social media: perspectives from Norway. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. Vol. 11.
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-04237-1

Selnes, Florence Namasinga ; Walulya, Gerald; Lukanda, Ivan Nathanael (2023). New Challenges Old Tactics: How Ugandan Newsrooms Combat Fake News. Dralega, Carol Azungi (Ed.). Digitisation, AI and Algorithms in African Journalism and Media Contexts. p. 67-67. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80455-135-620231004

Selnes, Florence Namasinga (2023). Fake news on social media: Understanding teens’ (Dis)engagement with news. Media, Culture and Society.
https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437231198447

Walulya, Gerald; Selnes, Florence Namasinga (2023). “I thought You Are Beautiful”: Uganda Women Journalists’ Tales of Mob Violence on Social Media. Digital Journalism.
https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2170899

Selnes, Florence Namasinga (2022). Anti-terrorism regulation and the media in Uganda. Verfassungsblog.
https://doi.org/10.17176/20220311-001121-0

Selnes, Florence Namasinga (2020). Internet restrictions in Uganda: examining their impact on journalism. Information, Communication & Society. Vol. 24.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2020.1859580

Selnes, Florence Namasinga (2020). Safety and self-censorship 1. Larsen, Anna Grøndahl; Fadnes, Ingrid; Krøvel, Roy (Ed.). Journalist Safety and Self-Censorship. p. 180-180. Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367810139-11

Selnes, Florence Namasinga ; Orgeret, Kristin Skare (2020). Women and election activism in Uganda: The Pads4Girls Social Media Campaign. ISBN: 9783030326821. Palgrave Macmillan.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32682-1



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Research reports

Namasinga, Florence (2018). Sourcing in converged media spheres. A study of how print journalists in Uganda use social media in routine news coverage. 310 p. Universitetet i Oslo.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4577513



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Dissemination

Hornmoen, Harald ; Nilsson, Elisabet M.; Stuedahl, Dagny ; Habib, Laurence ; Hyde-Clarke, Nathalie ; Bhroin, Niamh Ní; Bjørgvinsson, Erling; Selnes, Florence Namasinga ; Hegg, Kaja; Sackl-Sharif, Susanne; Malli, Garbriel (2025). The end conference of the U-YouPa research project. The end conference of the U-YouPa research project . Department of Journalism and Media Studies (OsloMet).
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5359934

Selnes, Florence Namasinga (2023). Norwegian Teensʼ experiences with fake news on social media: Roles and vulnerabilities. Disrupted or Disruptive Audiences?. The ECREA Audience and Reception Studies Section).
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5506608

Selnes, Florence Namasinga (2023). Teensʼ (dis)engagement with news: The role of fake news on social media. U-YouPaʼs consortium seminar spring 2023,. OsloMet - Storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5506627

Mozdeika, Lukas; Selnes, Florence Namasinga (2022). Conspiring with the Fake: Countering Misinformation Through Better Fakes in Cultural Play Practices. ECREA Pre-conference: Young people, entertainment and cross-media storytelling. Ecra.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5506635

Selnes, Florence Namasinga (2022). Snakk om Ukraina og falske nyhetern med de unge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4712391

Selnes, Florence Namasinga (2022). Snakk om nyheter og falsk formidling med de unge.
https://doi.org/https://www.adressa.no/debatt/i/Rr

Selnes, Florence Namasinga (2022). Digitalization as Driver of Inclusion in Education?Experiences from a journalism training institution during the COVID-19 pandemic. Digitalization and practices of inclusion. Faculty of Education Høgeskolen i Innlandet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4590016

Selnes, Florence Namasinga (2022). Teens and misinformation on social media: Opportunity or deterrence for participation?. U-YOUPA Meeting and workshop. U-YOUPA.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5042177

Selnes, Florence Namasinga ; Mozdeika, Lukas (2022). Democratic judgment and digital irony: Reorienting critical media literacy from misinformation to wordlessness as the key symptom of the social media age. Young people, entertainment and cross-media storytelling: perspectives and methods for investigating youth media. ECREA.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4588448

Selnes, Florence Namasinga (2022). I Thought You are Beautiful: Women Journalists’ Tales of Violence on So Media in Uganda. ICA panel session: Global communication and social change. International Communication Association (ICA).
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3488297



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